James Larkin Quotes

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

James Larkin

• House

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.

  

  Kajol
  • Up
  • Personality
  • Safety

• Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • Play

• World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

  

  Lane Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Lost

• Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Done
  • Film
  • Snow

• You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• Working gets in the way of living.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Way
  • Working
  • Living

• It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Earth
  • Conversation
  • Rise

• Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Education

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• I don't get hung up on weight.

  

  Jack Black
  • Up
  • Get
  • Weight

• It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Characters

• I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Being
  • Abortion
  • Con

• I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Long
  • Live
  • Pretty

• Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Flowers

• There were no theatre facilities at the comp that I went to, but I did have amazing teachers who never stopped encouraging me.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Theatre

• I think that what we do out on the field is oftentimes a little bit better than what men do. I don't think that we flop around as much. I think we're tough. I mean, I've got battle wounds on my legs from the turf and sliding. And we're gritty. And we're feisty. And I think that I would never back down from a guy.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Men
  • Guy
  • Battle

• Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Life
  • May
  • History

• Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination.

  

  Atul Gawande
  • House
  • Health

• Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over - unless we find new ways of producing energy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • House
  • Energy

• Here's to the wind blowing against this lighted house and to the vast, windless spaces between the stars.

  

  William Collins
  • House
  • Wind
  • Against

• I have found heaven on earth, since heaven is God, and God is in my soul.

  

  Elizabeth of the Trinity
  • God
  • Soul
  • Heaven

• I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

  

  James Larkin
  • House